Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• van der Kemp, PH

Titel

Raffles' Atjeh-Overeenkomst van 1819 - Bijlagen

Ist Teil von

• Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indië, 1900-01, Vol.51 (1), p.159

Ort / Verlag

The Hague: Koninklijke Brill NV

Erscheinungsjahr

1900

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EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The discussions on the prosperity of our proceeding to Pedir are entered on the early part of our proceedings, in which His Excellency will perceive that although we differed in opinion with regard to the possible effects of this measure, no doubt remained on our mimd of the Dutch having actually commenced the negotiation, and that although captain Coombs, objected to the Commissioners going to Pedir themselves, he admitted the propriety of some immediate communication in writing the difficulty of wording such a written communication with reference to the existing circumstances of the Kingp stood in the way of its adoption, and it was finally resolved that we should touch at Pedir on our way to Acheen, in order to ascertain the real state of the negociation opened by the Dutch and check any further attempt that might be contemplated, and that an intimation of our appointment and objects should be sent direct to the Chiefs of Acheen, proper and to Syf ul Allum at Tellasamoy through the medium of his father, who attended our next meeting for the purpose. 6. The first was of paramount and immediate importance, and the positive assurances given us by the Government of Penang that negotiations on the part of the Duth had actually commenced, rendered our early attention to it indispensable and called for direct measures; the other question could only properly be investigated on the spot, and in the disposition in which I found the Government of Penang, I had no hesitation in declining to consider this part of the question in any shape until we had actually arrived off Acheen. [...]in the communication alluded to in this letter, the object was expressly confined to the first and most essential point, without the most remote reference to the ultimate investigation with regard to the rival candidates for the throne. [...]we acquaint our friend the Honble the Governor of Penang that we request his kindness to us not to examine strictly into the respectfulness of our address, for we are peasants and not well acquainted with Malay languages, but let our friend consider only the meaning of our letter. [...]my friend expresses a desire that the friendly relations between Siak and Malacca and Pulo Penang may be maintained.